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22-06-2018
Klokhuis Vragendag (Question Day) 2018 @ NEMO
| Submitter: | Joeri van Leeuwen |
| Description: | Kids with burning questions that want a different answer than "that's just the way it is" or "just because" can save them up for the annual Klokhuis Vragendag at NEMO. Two of the questions from the trailer are "Can you smell in space" and "Where does Wifi come from". Well, we know the answer to those two very well here. This year, over 500 kids submitted questions, and these were all answered by a team of about 40 scientists from various disciplines. Using models, laptops, and taking brains (still bloody) from jars. There was also the traditional Vraag Maar Raak show (at 3m30 in the Klokhuis episode). Here, a cognitive scientist, biologist, chemist, physicist and an astronomer had to answer 10 questions in 20 minutes. Kids wrote down questions when entering the theater, these were drawn from a large vat, and then it was up to the audience to decide whether the learned team had demonstrated and explained well enough. If we did not make it, we had to dance. If we did, we got high-fives. Given the many available props, some were doable (such as: "Why are there tides", explained above by dancing out an Earth-Sun-Moon system). Others were harder -- the worst one being "Why is there gravity". If I knew that .. Still we managed, and were paid with a few hundred high-fives. |
| Copyright: | JvL |
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